/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

Aight, JWU, and it seems the projection is causing some trouble. I am to blame in part for this, when I laid out the map onto the globe, I was mainly concerned with: respecting the 15 deg polar circle offset, and minimizing apparent distortion. To do those two things, parts of the map ended up changing latitude. This deformation was not communicated to climate anon, who did his work assuming the latitudal proportions were the same in the old and new map. I apologize for this to him.

Now, as for solutions. I do not think changing the climate to account for this is most efficient or sensible.
1. It would require climate anon to re-draw the climate map, which was a sizable workload, I think it would be unfair to ask this of him again.
2. There is a lot of lore that runs on assumptions based on this map.

Do not despair, because I do not think this means we need to handwave or magic this away.
First potential solution:
I simply create a new projection which places the countries where they should be to have the accurate climates. Pros: This is less work than creating a new climate map and certainly less than adjusting all the climate-related lore. I can then simply re-project all our Map3.0 maps onto this new projection, so that no one needs to actually create new stuff. Cons: I think this would result in visible artificial distortion of the countries on the globe that are in the concerned regions.
I am willing to do this, but I do not favor it.

Second potential solution:
I think people are vastly underestimating the magnitude of variation the world climate can undergo. Consider these two pictures:
Vegetation during the Last Glacial age (~20k years ago)
https://files.catbox.moe/grzgex.png
Climate during the Miocene (~10M years ago)
https://files.catbox.moe/yg7zqh.jpg
Between those two, Norway goes from deep into the tundra (maybe even an ice cap) to the equivalent of an Oceanic climate. Sounds familiar? That is the same discrepancy that /uuu/ currently has.
So, this is the proposal: our world has a climate more similar to the IRL Miocene than current day Earth.

Possible concerns:
>Does this mean we must have dinosaurs and shit?
No, 10M years ago is relatively recent, geological and evolutionarily speaking. I think most of our work in fauna and flora creation wouldn't be affected by this, as the climate they were designed around end up not needing to be changed.
>Why was it warmed, anyway? Does that mean we have a fuckton of greenhouse gas up our ass?
Possibly, yes. Current theories explaining the warmth of the Miocene are that tectonic and volcanic activity resulted in the release of unusually high amount of CO2 (900-1200 ppm, compared to 415.26 in current day.). However, this doesn't mean that we need to undergo climate change; this climate change would retroactively explain our current climate.
>Wait, does all that carbon mean we're in the carboniferous and there are giant bugs and shiet?
First, the Carboniferous had even crazier CO2 levels (around 1500 ppm), but secondly and more importantly, the nature of the Miocene warming is that it was relatively short-lived, lasting only a few million years (I'm seeing 2-4M years), as the off-gassing from tectonic activity was recycled through the environment. Before and after this period, the levels were closer to the 400 ppm baseline, which means giant bugs wouldn't really have had the time to evolve to the insane sizes of the Carboniferous. However, they might be a little larger than average.
>Fuck, does that mean we need to re-do the climates in 2 million years?
Do you really think we'll make it that far? Mori will probably have killed us all with the Final yab by then.

Thoughts? Especially from climate anon

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